It will take more than recent rate cuts for a recovery in home sales to gain traction, a new analysis of market data and economic…
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Falling mortgage rates should help boost home sales by nearly 10 percent next year, but in the meantime, inventory shortages and affordability challenges are keeping…
Fed easing was already priced into mortgage rates, but there’s room for more relief if investors who fund most home loans get less skittish about…
Existing-home sales fell 4.2 percent year over year to a seasonally adjusted rate of 3.86 million in August as buyers awaited the Fed’s decision to…
Central bank policymakers drop short-term rates by 1/2 percentage point and signal more cuts ahead, but much of the impact may already be priced in…
Lenders have gotten into the habit of helping some homebuyers avoid jumbo loans by raising their limits before an official announcement by Fannie Mae and…
Investors who fund most mortgages have already priced in several rate cuts, so further declines could depend on what next week’s “dot plot” says about…
A surprisingly large increase in core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, means Fed policymakers are likely to start out with a modest…
Fannie Mae’s National Housing Survey shows there’s greater optimism about the future, but fewer than 1 in 5 consumers thought August was a good time…